Auth Service - Login

At the moment, our signup service returns a user object. In our SignupComponent, we’re logging that result to the console with a comment stating that we’ll eventually redirect the user to a dashboard, which we’ll create in the next chapter. By redirecting users to a dashboard when they signup, we’re effectively logging in a user on their behalf in addition to creating their account. So before we progress to the dashboard, we’ll need to create one more method, login, in our AuthService (returning users who’ve already created an account will have a separate login section we’ll be creating later).

If you return back to the API documentation section, you should see a section labeled “Sessions”. This is the endpoint we’ll need to hit to log in a user.

Within this section, we can see that, once again, we’ll need to submit a POST request. This time the endpoint is /api/sessions.

The request body for this route looks almost identical to the one for creating new users.

{
  "username": "myUser",
  "password": "password"
}

The only ...